What Chinese Pens Are You Using Today ?

[Dan Carmell]

2 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’ve been looking at the Dragon 100 and can’t decide which color I prefer. Both the green and the red are pretty. They remind me of the Cross Botanica and Wanderlust lines, which have a similar background. 

I picked the green after the vendor told me red was more popular, being a dedicated contrarian! I’m sure you’re aware, but this pen is based on the Hero 100, so it has a screw cap and is a bit bigger, with a zogan (is that the right word?) on the section and a laser engraved LE number on the barrel. 
 

The 100 was my first Chinese pen and I’ve picked up several of the metal ones. There were at least two commemorative or LE pens based on the old version and since the 100 was Hero’s flagship pen for so long, I imagine there were others I’ll never see. 

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, Dan Carmell said:

I picked the green after the vendor told me red was more popular, being a dedicated contrarian!

  I have the green in my cart. If there was a blue, that would have already been here. Red dragons are always popular, double good fortune. I love the inlaid hooded sections; I wish most pens even just had a dot, so that the hood lines up nicely with the nib on the screw on sections. 

[Stompie]

20 hours ago, Stefan-Ionut-Marius said:

Today Fountain pens are :

Hero 343,

Hero Brass poket fountain pen .

 

I see all your posts and questions came to mind:

 

I wonder how many pens you have inked up at any one time?

I wonder if you only partially fill them each time you ink up a new pen?

I wonder if you just dip them into ink to write the required amount of words?

I wonder if you flush each pen out after use?

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

On 12/15/2024 at 1:55 PM, Stompie said:

 

I see all your posts and questions came to mind:

 

I wonder how many pens you have inked up at any one time?

I wonder if you only partially fill them each time you ink up a new pen?

I wonder if you just dip them into ink to write the required amount of words?

I wonder if you flush each pen out after use?

I currently have many pens full of ink, even too many around 30 and some of these pens i use only once, if I don't really like how the pen writes, after the
 ink is finished I flush each pen out  and i put the pen away.

I do not store any fountain pen before washing it and well i do not use pens unless they are fully filled with ink . 
But I also have about 8 pens that are constantly in rotation and full of ink.

[Stompie]

[Gloucesterman]

On 12/9/2024 at 1:22 AM, USG said:

I have many pens that can’t draw ink from a sample vial.  I unscrew the nib and eye dropper ink into the pen and replace the nib.  Converter pens are even easier.  Syringe ink from the vial into the converter.  

OR, you could fill the converter directly from the sample vial/bottle (if there is enough ink available).